Quotes with card-game

Quotes 241 till 260 of 318.

  • Thomas Wolfe The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Carl Lewis The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Boris Spassky The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Billy Evans The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Abraham Pais The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Mae West The score never interested me, only the game.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Rod Laver The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
    Rod Laver
     
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bill Shankly The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Casey Stengel There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • C. L. R. James There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
    Source: Beyond a Boundary (1963)
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke These humiliations are the essence of the game.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Cass Sunstein They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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